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Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome by Lindsay C. Watson
€33.31Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in reality a highly pragmatic business, with very clearly... -
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
RRP: €47.60€29.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307264879Author Joan DidionFormat HardbackPage Count 1160Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 987gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
A Swansea Anthology by James A. Davies 9781854114488
€22.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114488Author Dylan ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 320g -
Anabasis of Alexander: v.1 by Arrian
RRP: €29.69€28.31On the march to greatness.Arrian (Flavius Arrianus), of the period ca. AD 95-175, was a Greek historian and philosopher of Nicomedia in Bithynia. Both a Roman and an Athenian citizen, he was governor of the Roman province of Cappadocia 132-137, and... -
Shipping Container by Craig Martin
RRP: €11.89€9.13Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop... -
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780393979084
€15.20This Norton Critical Edition of her best-selling novel is annotated and edited by preeminent Gaskell scholar Alan Shelston. "Contexts" includes contemporary reviews and correspondence related to North and South, along with the full text of Gaskell's 1850... -
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space by Andreas Mebert
RRP: €7.74€7.27In Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne tackle the central problem facing all businesses: how to perform better than your competitors? Their solution involves taking a creative approach to the normal view of competition.In the normal... -
The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature by Jose Ortega y Gasset 9780691197210
RRP: €16.65€13.59A classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist Jose Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his response to modernism, "The... -
Give Birth Like a Feminist: Your body. Your baby. Your choices. by Milli Hill 9780008313135
RRP: €11.89€6.93Featured on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 Live Selected as one of the Independent's 10 best pregnancy books for expectant parents Birth is a feminist issue. It's the feminist issue... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction by Jerrold E. Hogle
RRP: €32.12€27.61Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of... -
The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell by Dante Alighieri
RRP: €13.08€9.25Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and... -
Jane Austen: The Six Novels by Wendy Craik 9781138084445
RRP: €52.35€45.74First published in 1965, this reissued work by Wendy Craik provides a thorough and extensive study of Jane Austen's six complete novels: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion. This is a truly... -
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Wessex by Tony Fincham
RRP: €9.46€8.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992915155Author Tony FinchamFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press -
The Force of Poetry by Christopher Ricks 9780198183266
RRP: €63.07€49.60Christopher Ricks is one of the best-known living critics of English, and was described by W. H. Auden as `the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. Though published indepenently over many years, each of the essays in this collection of his... -
Monsters go to a Party by Zanna Davidson 9781474978385
RRP: €7.13€4.40Another laugh-out-loud monster adventure in the Billy and the Mini Monsters chapter book series, in FULL COLOUR, perfect for newly independent readers aged 6+ and fans of Claude and Horrid Henry.It's Billy's best friend's birthday, and the Mini Monsters... -
The Shortest History of War by Gwynne Dyer 9781913083236
RRP: €10.70€7.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083236Author Gwynne DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingWeight(grams) 129g -
Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition by Cesar Vallejo
RRP: €15.46€14.67Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles... -
Plainwater: Essays And Poetry by Anne Carson
RRP: €19.03€13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708428Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp
RRP: €11.89€8.09This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.In 1934, Eileen O'Shaughnessy's futuristic poem, 'End of the Century,... -
Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives by Helen Taylor
RRP: €15.46€10.82Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary British women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the... -
Corregidora by Gayl Jones
RRP: €11.89€8.09AS HEARD ON THE BACKLISTED PODCAST'No novel about any Black woman could ever be the same after this' TONI MORRISON'Corregidora (1975), was both shocking and ground-breaking in its probing of the psychological legacy of slavery and sexual ownership' MAYA... -
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
RRP: €13.08€8.71Nick Flynn met his father when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this mystery father - self-proclaimed poet (and greatest American novelist since Mark Twain),... -
Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females by Kate Hodges
RRP: €22.60€15.65Meet mythology's fifty fiercest females in this modern retelling of the world's greatest legends. From feminist fairies to bloodsucking temptresses, half-human harpies and protective Vodou goddesses, these are women who go beyond long-haired, smiling... -
A Roland Barthes Reader by Roland Barthes
RRP: €20.22€14.61'To read through A Barthes Reader is finally to be left with the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time' New RepublicEdited by Susan Sontag, A Roland Barthes Reader offers a definitive selection of works by the French... -
The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses by Harry Blamires 9780415138581
RRP: €52.35€45.74Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have... -
Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films: A 21st Century Guide by Barry Forshaw
RRP: €15.46€10.23The legendary Georges Simenon was the most successful and influential writer of crime fiction in a language other than English; Andre Gide called him 'the greatest French novelist of our times'. Celebrated crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw's informed... -
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen 9780199552580
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.' In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out 'to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life'... -
Charles Bukowski by David Calonne 9781780230238
RRP: €15.46€10.82In this new interpretation of the life and work of the American poet, short-story writer and novelist "Charles Bukowski", David Stephen Calonne examines Bukowski's writings, colourful life and the desperate conditions of his lifestyle, looking at the... -
The Seasons of Life: A Companion for the Poetic Journey by Hermann Hesse
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623175061Author Hermann HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780393935622
€19.25This Norton Critical Edition includes: fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn's translation of The Decameron; introductory materials, explanatory footnotes and three maps; biographical works by Filippo Villani and Ludovico Dolce,... -
The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice by Marcus Boon
RRP: €24.98€21.86In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians-Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer... -
Iona: Poems by Kenneth Steven 9781640606302
RRP: €17.85€14.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640606302Author Kenneth StevenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 113g -
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish by Tom McCarthy
RRP: €19.03€13.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370866Author Tom McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body by Travis M. Foster
RRP: €27.36€23.28The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological entity, clothing for the soul, a site of cultural production, a psychosexual construct, and a... -
The Hooded Gunman: An Illustrated History of Collins Crime Club by John Curran
RRP: €47.60€34.32Winner of the 2019 H.R.F. Keating Award for best biography or critical book related to crime fiction! A lavish full-colour celebration of the 2000 books by more than 250 authors published by the iconic Crime Club between 1930 and 1994. ... -
Works: v. 5 by Philo
RRP: €29.69€27.83Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish ... -
The Messages We Send: Social Signals and Storytelling by G. R. F. Ferrari 9780198798422
€52.67G. R. F. Ferrari offers a new framework for understanding different ways in which we communicate with each other. He explores the idea of "intimations": social interactions that approach outright communication but do not quite reach it. The metaphor from... -
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir by Seán Hewitt 9781529114478
RRP: €13.08€9.25A luminous memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a tender exploration of queer identity.'Beautiful' Colm Toibin'Rapturous' New York Times'Extraordinary' Observer'Stunning' Sunday TimesWhen Sean meets... -
Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion by David Crystal
RRP: €33.32€23.74A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as... -
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: €15.46€10.19Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'Engaging, brilliant' Guardian'A talkative, tender meditation' Financial Times'Every novelist will want to read this' Daily TelegraphWhat happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a writer create its...